1210.0543 (Camilla Pacifici et al.)

The rise and fall of the star formation histories of blue galaxies at redshifts 0.2    [PDF]

Camilla Pacifici, Susan A. Kassin, Benjamin Weiner, Stephane Charlot, Jonathan P. Gardner

Popular cosmological scenarios predict that galaxies form hierarchically from the merger of many progenitors, each with their own unique star formation history (SFH). We use the approach recently developed by Pacifici et al. (2012) to constrain the SFHs of 4517 blue (presumably star-forming) galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the range 0.2View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0543